Friday, March 31, 2017

Magical powers

We were
searching through one of our kitchen drawers earlier this week
looking for spare dollars and euros for our son who will be
travelling a bit over the next few months. Alas, no such currency was found
although many other interesting things were because it was one of
those drawers. You know the type, we all have at least one I'm sure,
it's the drawer that just seems to accumulate various random stuff.
Stuff that was once useful, but has now fallen into disuse; stuff
that maybe might come in useful one day, just maybe; stuff that just had to be stuffed somewhere. In this drawer
for example there were out of date passports, a tuning pipe thingy,
old sunglasses, lots of coins of various currency (except dollars
and euros), an old Xbox connector, an old sellotape dispenser, etc etc.

There
was also my old Ipod Shuffle, the first one I had owned (and I
apologise for the apparently very grubby appearance of the lanyard!).
I reckon it had been put in the drawer five or six years ago after I
got a new larger capacity one. I thought it would be interesting to
bring it out of retirement and see what was on it. So I charged it
and yesterday listened to it while I cycled to and from work.

I was
impressed with the music it offered up on my journey to work in the
morning. A good mix of mostly Sixties obscure soul (of course), none
of which I had probably heard since I had last worn this ipod.

However, I was truly amazed by what this ipod
gave me on my pedal home later in the day. As usual I was day
dreaming as I cycled home – I switch off from work instantly
nowadays. Probably jogged by all this great music I was hearing and
the fact that when I had put this particular mix of tracks on this
ipod I would no doubt have been actively looking for and buying
various similar 45s from the USA back when postage costs and exchange
rates would have not been prohibitive, my thoughts had turned to a
possible digging trip to the USA - one can dream. I then asked myself
what would be a record at the top of my wants list on such a trip. I
thought of Ella Brown's two 45s on Adams. Then I thought I want one
of them more than the other but I couldn't remember which one. Just
as I concluded this thought process a track I had been listening to
ended and, after a brief silence, the next track started.

It was
Ella Brown singing Right Or Wrong (I Love Him). My
old ipod had answered me!!

I
kid you not, that was exactly how it happened. Very spooky.

Can
I offer up an explanation? Subconsciously maybe the selection of
tracks I had heard on this ipod after all these years had triggered a
memory which caused me to think of Ella Brown because my momory knew
an Ella Brown track was coming sooner or later? Or maybe it was
because some of the tracks on this ipod may well have been downloaded
from Ana-B's old site The Singing Bones, and it was Ana-B who had
outbid me on a copy of this Ella Brown record about six years ago?
Who knows? I will just carry on thinking this old ipod has magical
powers and answered my question.

You
can now find Ella Brown's Right Or Wrong on YouTube.

Ella
released four singles. Two on Adams and two on Lanor. The two on
Lanor are quite easy to come by and I have both. Here is the B side
of one of them.

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Music posted here I have bought and gained much pleasure from listening to down the years (or months, or days!). So in the spirit of an 'all back to mine' it's time to share it.

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